McCloud River Railroad
Equipment Roster
Brownhoist Crane #15/MR #72


The #15 at work in the first Pondosa (now Hambone), showing the offset boiler. Heritage Junction Museum.

Crane 72 on the turntable lead at Signal Butte sometime prior to 1974. Jeff Moore collection.

Crane 72 on a work train at Berry Wye on 29 January 1976. Jeff Moore collection.

Crane 72 on 17 September 1982, long after its rebuild. Photo by Jimmy Bryant, courtesy of Nevada Historical Society.

17 September 1982. Photo by Jimmy Bryant, courtesy of Nevada Historical Society.


Crane #72 in the McCloud yard in 1984. Pat Holden photo, Jeff Moore collection.

Crane 72 in front of the shop in the later 1980s. Jerry Lamper.

Around 1995/1996 the Great Western Museum disassembled the #72 in order to move it from Ash Creek Junction to land they owned adjacent to the old truck shop in east McCloud, where it sat until scrapped.